The survey, according to its website, is “based on a survey of adult Arab and Jewish populations, with more than 100 questions on 16 different issues, including segregation, perception of the other, alienation, threats, collective memory, legitimacy of coexistence and the state, the conflict with the Palestinians, Israel’s integration in the region, identity, minority leadership, means of struggle, and possibilities for change”.
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(JNS.org) A Hebrew teacher at Jordan’s Petra University was sacked this week after his students reported him for saying that learning the language would help them understand Israeli culture, Israel’s Army Radio reported.
“In the elections [in March] he began his ugly incitement by saying we were coming out to vote “in droves”.
Also calling for firmer actions was the Im Tirtzu Zionist group, which turned to Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) asking that he order the heads of institutions of higher education to outlaw the Islamic Movement’s student groups, which go by the name Ikra.
He also noted that “even the Shin Bet are opposed to the ban”, confirming reports in the Israeli media of the dispute between the influential internal security agency, which feared the move could increase tensions, and police, which supported the move. Mohammed Barakeh, the committee’s head, said the Islamic Movement would continue to participate in defiance of the ban.
It accused the movement of “continuous incitement to violence and racism” and said the party has led “a campaign of lies and incitement” by accusing Israel of plotting to take over the Jerusalem holy site.
The relative popularity of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, banned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet on Tuesday, has troubled Israel as it tries to curb street attacks raging for the past seven weeks.
Ghanem said nothing about the Islamic Movement had changed in the past decade. The UN has passed numerous resolutions condemning Israeli settlement activity, but the United States, Israel’s closest ally and main benefactor, has used its Security Council veto power to thwart the will of the global body. “I am proud to remain the president of the Islamic Movement…”
In September the government banned the Murabitoun, Muslim students organised by the Islamic Movement in the al-Aqsa compound. It would do “more harm than good”, he reportedly told them.
Israel has resolved to outlaw a domestic Islamist movement with ties to Hamas and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, according to a press release distributed early Tuesday morning by the Prime Minister’s Office.
The comments by the Dutch politician follow similar rhetoric by Sweden’s Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, who said Monday that Palestinian grievances with Israel led to the Paris attacks.
Marijnissen’s statement and the decision by the Spanish judge show that few in Europe share Senator Schumer’s views on the root cause of the Islamic State terror attacks in Paris. At the same time both regional branches of Fatah and Hamas, and unaffiliated student councils, have amassed hundreds to repeatedly protest the Israeli military in demonstrations in the West Bank.
Urging Israel to shed the role of “victim” and be “players in your own fate”, Indyk asserted that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would be an Israeli partner for peace “tomorrow” if only the Jewish state would freeze its settlements, presumably in both the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Regionally, meanwhile, the Islamic Movement is at its weakest.
Intelligence services have admitted they have little idea how to deal with the so-called “lone wolves”, individual Palestinians not affiliated with any political faction, behind most of the attacks.
The horrific terror attacks in Paris last week completely overshadowed a significant story earlier in the week, the European Union’s issuing of new guidelines for the labeling of products from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).
Zahalka said Netanyahu wanted a scapegoat and had found a convenient one in Salah.
The Jerusalem hilltop compound houses the Al-Aqsa mosque and is the third holiest site in Islam.
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Salah, who has been in and out of Israeli prisons, is suppose to start a 11-month jail term later this month pending an appeal for other incitement charges related to a 2007 sermon.
